Once your event is listed, it’s important to promote what you’re doing to your community to encourage people to sign up and get involved.Rotary Ride, our national event to raise funds for prostate cancer charities.
Green Space Restoration
If you have a local park or community garden that could use a bit of love, join your community there for a day of turning your nearest green space into the perfect place to relax and enjoy nature. Whether it be painting fences, building new benches, planting a variety of new trees or removing graffiti and litter, there are countless practical ways you can get people involved and create a green space your local community can be proud of.
Public Water Clean
Whether it be a beach, lake, pond or canal, The Big Help Out presents an opportunity for you to bring people together, get their wellies on and make important improvements to your local water feature. Activities could include picking litter out the water, planting native plants on the riverside or building a living shoreline. The day could also present the opportunity to educate your community about more environmentally friendly ways of disposing waste.
Coronation Legacy Garden
There would be few better ways to mark this momentous occasion than supporting the environment, a cause King Charles III is particularly passionate about. Find a fertile patch of land, supply your community with seeds and host a day of planting a variety of different plants that you will get to watch bloom over time into a beautiful legacy garden.
Tree and Flower Planting
Once you have found an area perfect for planting and have supplied an adequate amount of seeds and digging equipment, this will be the perfect opportunity to introduce some new flowers and trees to a local area. For an idea of how to take on a project like this you may want to take inspiration from the Billion Seed Challenge, a similar event Rotary supported in 2021.
Litter Picking
One you have purchased a good supply of bin bags, litter pickers and gloves, it should be easy to get your whole community involved for a day of clearing litter from your streets, gardens, parks or beaches. No matter where in Great Britain and Ireland, whether it be in the city or the countryside, you live you should be able to take part. For inspiration, see this Rotary club who won a Queen’s Award for Voluntary Service last year for their efforts.
Wildlife Conservation Project
There are countless ways you can bring your community together to support local wildlife. This could include digging together to make a new pond, building a bug hotel, putting up bird and squirrel boxes or planting a wildflower garden to attract butterflies. When you decide on what kind of wildlife conservation project(s) you want to undertake, start contacting local suppliers or wildlife trusts to get everything you will need!
